In the existing leagues, there is nothing stopping anyone from playing self-found, and we know many of our players do. We also have players that only engage rarely with other players, trading and partying occasionally.

So, as you can play self found in an existing league, I doubt we need to separate out the leagues.

Developers had to bludgeon down every farming technique people could think of that wasn't "fun", though.

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I'm a guy that doesn't really like to play with random in ARPG like PoE (D2, TL2, etc.). I rarely play with friends and I never really trade other than crafting materials...

So I'm pretty much a SFL guy who doesn't rant on the forum about needing a SFL league, we don't need one, most people who self found just like ARPG in general and does it for the fun rather than getting the best supra-dupa-mega-giga gear...

If you ever got a Torch as self found in D2 then you are one crazy guy... 3 set of keys + the gear to do Meph uber (he's the only challenge, let's all be honest here)

I'm a casual that plays for a month then stop for a year cause I get angry at PoE because of desync and it takes me about a year to forget why I stopped playing it.

It's one decent ARPG... and D3 isn't free so... :\

Edit: D3 is a joke, the lead dev bailed out on the project not even a year in cause of all the hate. They cancelled Blizzcon that year...

A year later, 50 patches, about 200 hours of downtime, 37 errors laters and a whole new dev team, loot system and skills... Yeah the game is alright...